09/03/2013

RANDY RISLING - Olivia Chow works on the Jack Layton Memorial sculpture titled "Jack's Got Your Back" at MST Bronze in Etobicoke. The sculpture was unveiled on the second anniversary of Jack's death, August 22 at the Toronto Island Ferry Terminal. Olivia holds a Fine Arts degree and is a trained sculptor.

Tonya Verbeek wins the silver after she lost the gold medal match against a celebrating Saori Yoshida.

Tonya Verbeek wins the silver.

Adam Van Koeverden - Kayak 1000m - SILVER

Adam Van Koeverden puts on the brakes after winning the silver in the 1000 metre kayak.

Adam Van Koeverden looking good in silver.

Mark Oldershaw - 1000m Canoe - BRONZE

Mark Oldershaw enjoys the bronze medal around his neck from the 1000 canoe at Eton Dorney.

Mark Oldershaw waits for his golf cart to leave the medal area after winning the bronze in the 1000 metre canoe event at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Carol Huynh - Wrestling - BRONZE

Carol Huynh loses her semi-final match against Hitomi Obara, Huynh would fight for the bronze.

Carol Huynh takes down he opponent to win the bronze medal match against Isabelle Sambou from Senegal.

Carol Huynh waves to her mother after she wins the bronze medal match against Isabelle Sambou from Senegal.

Simon Whitfield - triathlon - CRASHED

Simon Whitfield exits the water from the swim, he would withdraw from the race after a crash during the first cycling lap.

Simon Whitfield's wife consoles their two daughters after he crashed.

Alexandre Despatie - 3m Springboard - ELEVENTH

Alexandre Despatie prepares to dive, he would finish 11th on the three metre springboard.

Alexandre Despatie dives, I think he took a little too much heat for his performance. If you look closely at his hairline you can see the extent of the injury he suffered two months ago on the three metre springboard, hang on, here it is closer.......

Alexandre Despatie dives, if you look closely at his hairline you can see the extent of the injury he suffered two months ago. I'm amazed he even competed at the Games.

08/01/2012

When it came to finding this month's collection of work, I couldn't resist offering up Richard Lauten's portrait taken on the last day of the month - today! At first, I thought it was an illustration (a picture designed, or conceived, or art directed, and a paid model) and pleasantly surprised to find a portrait (a picture which depicts something about the person). I'll let Lauten's caption speak for itself" Trish is one of more than 186,000 women in the US and Canada have logged on to find their own version of Christian Grey, the character from the book Fifty Shades of Grey. By mid-July 4,931 women from Toronto had altered their profiles on the site seakingarrangements.com indicating they were looking for a Mr. Grey, in other words, a dominant/submissive relationship with BDSM.

What follows is a more day-to-day representation of the types of assignments the staff find themselves up against. Steve Russell is only 4 days in the London 2012 Games, but already working around the clock getting to numerous events, so this is just a tease to the Best of August, when he will be featured prominently.